Gifu Shirakawa-go Parking shed fire Is the back of the storage shed Higashimoto November 5 19:28
In the Shirakawa-go, Shirakawa village of Shirakawa village, Gifu prefecture, registered as a World Heritage site in a Gassho-style village, a fire where two huts were burnt down on the 4th, the back of the storage shed was intense I found it burned. Police are investigating the cause of the fire, looking at the back of the shed as the source of fire.
Before 3pm on the 4th, two huts with storage and power distribution facilities were burned down in a parking lot for tourists in Shirakawago, a Shirakawa village registered as a World Heritage site.
There were no injuries and there was no damage to the surrounding gassho-style buildings, but at that time there were many tourists and it was temporarily noisy.
The police and the fire department conducted an on-site inspection on the 5th and found that the back of the storage shed was burnt violently among the two sheds.
On the back side there is an integrated box for temporarily storing garbage, as well as power distribution facilities and light bulbs. The police are examining the cause of the fire as the back side of the storage shed is the source of fire.
In Shirakawa village, after the fire of Shuri Castle in Okinawa Prefecture, it was just calling attention to the fire on the local cable broadcasting, and the local people and many tourists were watching the burnt spot for 5 days. It was.
A 78-year-old man who lives in a gassho-style house said that he operated a water discharge facility to wet the roof and prevented the spread of fire on the 4th. “The gassho-style house was very flammable, so it was scary whether it would not burn. I think I was able to prevent the spread of fire because I usually trained the operation of water discharge facilities. "